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on Strategic Default
I'd like to know of one instance where a bank has done the right thing when it's not in their financial interest.
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on Wes Moore
It looks like for some of the Rosevelt students, The Wire came to mind as they read your book. Being from Baltimore, did that series resonate with you, if you've seen it?
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on Meth Laws: Five Years Later
There are already a lot of comments suggesting a drop in meth related arrests may be attributable to the drug's manufacture moving south to mexico--and contributing further to their violence and instability.
Also, I have been drinking locally brewed beer and smoking locally grown marijuana for years, without so much as thinking about using anything harder.
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on High Speed Momentum
People need to start thinking about rail projects as engines for sustainable economic development. The Lake Oswego resident mentioned the New England rail corridor, home to some of our country's greatest cities. Transportation infrastructure that doesn't rely on cars is critical to the density of these cites, and, I would argue, their character.
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